Ricardo Coarasa

Ricardo Artigas Coarasa, journalist, has traveled around the world to step on the places where history and literature have left their mark. With the philosophy that behind every trip is a story that track and in the back of any story, a journey worth undertaking, followed the steps of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico, experience embodied in "Hernán Cortés.

The steps erased " (Mirror of Ink, 2007), traced the footsteps of Mallory in the Himalayas and the memory of the conquerors in countries like Guatemala or the Dominican Republic. With the aim of the adventure is any step we take into the unknown with curiosity of childhood, visited northern Ethiopia in search of the wake of Pedro Paez, the Spanish discovered the sources of the Blue Nile, traveling collection chronicles in "The Blue Nile Sources", yet reported, and traveled to Uganda in the heat of the stories of great explorers such as Speke, Stanley o Baker.
During the last twenty years has worked for media such as ABC and the Associated Press and currently does for the newspaper La Razon, where he joined the founding team and for covering the trial of 11-M.

He is coauthor of "11-M. The solidarity day stood up to terror ", a report on the coral 24 critical hours of the attacks in Madrid and has gathered some of his experiences traveling through Kenya and Tanzania in "Mzungu in Africa", orphan editor.

With the maximum Kapuscinski that "the world teaches humility", launched in March 2010 by the journalist and photographer Javier Brandoli the online travel magazine Viajesalpasado.com, specializing in travel with history.

The motivations for travel are endless. We travel behind landscapes, of people, of cities or in the wake of a childhood dream or a literary scene. We travel, also, for the sheer pleasure of escape routine. And you, ...

The pictures, sometimes, you flee, but sometimes you stumble upon them accidentally as in the most unexpected moment. Eso lo que nos sucedió a nosotros esa fría mañana de marzo en la madrileña sierra de la ...

Our destination is the Anie (2.504 meters), a pyramid of rock unmistakable landscape of the French Pyrenean region, but the first figure that draws our attention is the hegemonic presence of the peak Billare. ...

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The first thing I did nothing more than set foot in Stockholm, after 18 hours I got on a ferry from Helsinki, It was walking. There we were dragging suitcases up Stadsgardshamnen, savoring the pleasant feeling of knowing a stranger, coqueteando con el ...

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Travelling to Africa for the first time is not easy. Some are tempted to rush out and tumble as myths and darken the horizons idyllic. Pero quienes resistan ese fugaz impulso quedarán para siempre contaminados por ...